Strange Message

[danbee46]

Starting early today my Note III gives me the following message:

"An application has been forced to stop for an unauthorized attempt to access system in your device."

The phone and its apps seem to be working normally but I don't know how to stop that message from appearing.
I'm going to uninstall any apps that I downloaded in the last 24-48 hours and see if that does it, but are there any other suggestions?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Starting early today my Note III gives me the following message:

"An application has been forced to stop for an unauthorized attempt to access system in your device."

The phone and its apps seem to be working normally but I don't know how to stop that message from appearing.
I'm going to uninstall any apps that I downloaded in the last 24-48 hours and see if that does it, but are there any other suggestions?

Good start. I would not reinstall them until you don't see that pop up message, then do so slowly, 2 or 3 at a time for a day or so.

 

[danbee46]

It seems as though that the appearance of that message is related to connecting to the internet. I turned off wi-fi for several hours and the message didn't appear. When I turned it on the phone immediately connected to my home network and the message appeared but the connection functioned normally. In addition, it seems that the phone no longer connects to networks when I am away from home. I am completely stumped.

 

[Golfdriver97]

It seems as though that the appearance of that message is related to connecting to the internet. I turned off wi-fi for several hours and the message didn't appear. When I turned it on the phone immediately connected to my home network and the message appeared but the connection functioned normally. In addition, it seems that the phone no longer connects to networks when I am away from home. I am completely stumped.

Try a factory reset?

From a Sprint Moto X using AC forums app

 

[danbee46]

Yeah, that may be the only solution. But I'm going to hate reinstalling all my apps. [sigh]

 

[petaf]

Starting early today my Note III gives me the following message:

"An application has been forced to stop for an unauthorized attempt to access system in your device."

The phone and its apps seem to be working normally but I don't know how to stop that message from appearing.
I'm going to uninstall any apps that I downloaded in the last 24-48 hours and see if that does it, but are there any other suggestions?

I am seeing the same message! All my apps worked perfectly on my Note 2.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using AC Forums mobile app

 

[potahov]

Was getting same message for 2 days (started 3 days ago) almost every 2-3 hours but it didn't happen today anymore.. Haven't installed any new apps although (and I own the phone since Oct 2nd)

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

 

[danbee46]

Wow, I guess I'm not the only one. If either of you find the solution, please post it here.

 

[boudicca00]

Add my name to the list of people getting this error

 

[danbee46]

Well, I did a factory reset about an hour ago. Now I'll see if that message returns. The only dumb thing I did was not move my contacts from the phone to the sd card. Now I have to reenter all of them.

 

[Gary02468]

The only dumb thing I did was not move my contacts from the phone to the sd card. Now I have to reenter all of them.

Storing contacts on your phone is how it worked in the 1900s. In this century, you can just sync with Google or some other cloud provider.

 

[danbee46]

Here's a dumb question. How would I sync my contacts with Google? I obviously haven't done that before.

Cancel that. I am now saving my contact list to AT&T Address Book (the Cloud).

 

[Mario Abbiati]

It seems as though that the appearance of that message is related to connecting to the internet. I turned off wi-fi for several hours and the message didn't appear. When I turned it on the phone immediately connected to my home network and the message appeared but the connection functioned normally. In addition, it seems that the phone no longer connects to networks when I am away from home. I am completely stumped.

Hi Guys,
same exactly issue for me, but with a brand new Note3, just pulled out from the package

 

[mengao]

Add me to the list of people with a Note 3 who can connect to wifi at home, but nowhere else. I've tried disabling different wifi features per other people suggestions, and in different on/off combinations, and no luck. I've had the phone 5 days now. This is actually my second one, because the first one wouldn't connect to my home network even. I couldn't make wifi calls on it, and didn't get the blue icon. Now with my second phone, I get the blue wifi calling icon at home, but I can't even get a connection at my job. We have very strong wifi at work, and the phone sees the signal (and says it's very strong), but I keep getting the 'weak signal, unstable signal, disconnecting' messages. I'm stuck using my data whenever I leave the house. Anyone who has a solution that doesn't involve checking or unchecking 'auto network switch' or 'always allow scanning', let us know. Those two suggestions haven't worked for me on either Note 3 I've had so far.

 

[ricktas]

When the notification comes up, pull down your notification tab, then where the notification appears, tap and hold on the notification (long tap). You will get a pop-up saying 'take me to the app' or similar that will give you the option to find out which app, tap that. I found it was Knox notifications on my Note III. Once you get to the App, force close, and clear data. Should stop it recurring.

 

[anon(4701122)]

I started getting this message yesterday also. I did a factory reset this morning. Before installing any apps, as soon as the initial set up was complete. The message reappeared.

Could be completely and utterly wrong, but I'm wondering did Samsung push some sort of Knox security update in the background and it's bugged.

I suppose I'll wait for a while and see what happens, doesn't stop anything from working on the phone.

 

[sheffsteve1988]

Had this after I put 4.3 on my note 2 after doing some research I force stopped anything to do with knox and stopped getting the message

sent from my awesome rooted note 2 on 4.3 using android central app

 

[Willie Ford]

I did the same thing you did "ricktas" and I also found out it was Knox. I've uninstalled it, now I get the sign when I connect to my wifi at home but I haven't tried to connect anywhere else.

 

[rananna]

Tried uninstalling recent apps, but nothing fixed the problem.

 

[Vetdoctor]

Yes, seems to be Knox doing something inexplicable. My popup gives me the option to check a box and tell it to leave me alone for a month. I checked that and will decide if I care enough to do anything next month.